program. what are you going to do about it? >> we are in the process of speaking to that. i made a promise that i think will be kept. by me and the president in a relatively short period of time. we have a rollout that will be happening relatively soon. >> the phone records and the a.p. case, the notification spoke to phone records because the justice department's internal regulation speaks to phone records them don't speak to e-mail records. based on your briefings, either at the time or now that it has all come out, can you say whether journalists' e-mail records including contents of e-mail records that may have been older than six months were accessed as part of this investigation? >> again, you would have to refer to the letter that the deputy attorney general prepared. it actually is i think from what i understand, i've only seen it in drafts. it is pretty specific about, to times, dates in which things were acquired, what actually was

acquired but it is all in the letter the attorney general sent back to the a.p. >> this is the first time we've had a chance to speak to you since the boston marathon bombing. any evidence so far that the attacks received, the attackers received some training and or support from russia? >> that investigation is ongoing. i don't want to comment too much on it. i will note that the fbi director was in moscow last week. we've gotten good cooperation from the russians. we're smorg everything. >> was a.p. the only news organization that got the records subpoenaed? >> again, that will be for the deputy attorney general and the u.s. attorney to respond to. >> can you say whether as a general matter, it is possible to conduct a thorough investigation of leaks of classified information that

appear in the media without taking some of these investigative steps like pulling records? >> the department of justice regulations say you have to exhaust all of the other possibilities before you engage in interacting with the media. it is possible to do investigations in that way. but each investigation is different. as i said, i'm confident knowing that people here, but not knowing the facts. the decision to do what they did here was consistent with there having exhausted all the other possibilities. >> how many people within the department had to be recused? is it also the fbi director since he was also interviewed? is it also, can you give us the totality? it almost happened at the same time. >> i think i'm probably -- i don't know. i think i'm probably the only person who was recused and i did so out of an abundance of caution. i would have been the person leading the investigation.

it just seemed to me that having been interviewed, having knowledge of the matter, and then interacting with the press, that it seemed to me probably better for me to step out. >> you had a strongly worded defense, using the federal court system in terrorism cases. you expressed a lot of regret about how guantanamo ended up. is it your desire as we move into this second term to make another push to transer prisoners back to the united states? >> i think we ought to use our federal court system. it has proven to be effective. it is a place in which we can convict people charged with terrorist-related offenses. also a place we can get valuable intelligence. what we'll try to do is to close guantanamo. the president has indicated it is too expensive. it is a recruitment tool for terrorists. it has a negative impact with our relationship with our allies so we'll make a renewed effort

to close guantanamo. >> a new senior official or at the white house or elsewhere to work on guantanamo issues? >> we're on the process of working on that now. we're at candidates. >> why was this, why was the a.p. case different than other leaked investigations? i know you're not managing this investigation. you describe this as one of the top two or three. what made this different and why did it require such an extensive sweep of material? >> well, sweep, i'm not sure about. i don't know the facts there. but i know enough about what was compromised. as a result of that leak. and on the basis of that knowledge, that gives me the ability to characterize it as serious a matter as i said it was. >> last question? >> on the irs matter, what statutes potentially may have

been violated? >> we'll have to get to that. there are a variety of statutes within the irs code that i am not familiar with. have the ability to give you the numbers, too. but we have looked at in addition, there are other things in title 18 that we would be looking at as well. >> you've been with boston and benghazi and the irs and this. it seems like the fbi is involved in a lot of stuff. wondering if you have an update on the new fbi director? >> sure. that process is underway. we're in the process of talking, at least amongst ourselves about people and i've reached out and talked to the candidates. that process is underway. >> thank you very much. >> we've been listening to this news conference with attorney general eric holder. really tackling a number of issues from questions being answered regarding guantanamo bay but the pressing news of the

day, the continued investigation of what happened with the irs and allegations that it targeted tea party organizations or organizations linked to tea party affiliates, as well as the news that broke late yesterday. that the department of justice had seized phone records belonging to more than 100 associated press reporters and editors. the big news out of this is that the attorney general pointed out that he was interviewed by the fbi in 2012 in connection with the investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information and to these leaks, and that he in an abundance of caution and to avoid any appearance of conflict recused himself from the matter. this was all being led by the deputy attorney general, this is some of the new information we're getting now. we're hearing directly from the attorney general right before the news conference, the department of justice made that information clear. joining me to talk about this is our panel, samstein, ann

kornbluth and jonathan alter. let me start with you, sam. right before holder started his news conference we heard from carney in the daily briefing from the white house. much of what carney had to say, it was a wait and see from the irs to this information regarding these a.p. reporters that the white house was still accumulating information before it could give a stronger statement than what we heard. >> yes. and they didn't want to prejudge. they weren't involved. what jay carney said was that no one in the administration that he knew of, that he talked to had anything to do with the irs scandal. he also said with respect to the obtaining of records by the associated press, the president wasn't going to comment. nor was he. a very frustrating briefing for those of us in the press corps that were there because we were getting very little information out of jay but it seems like they're in a wait and see approach with respect to the

facts. >> robert gibbs was on with andrea mitchell listening to jay carney's response and to your point, you could tell frustration with the press corps pushing to get more information. and robert gibbs even described it and said it was not a strong response. he's been in that spot many times, having to deflect these questions and answer others. he saw this even as not being a strong response from the white house. even though these are ongoing investigations. we do have the irs even apologizing on friday. so there are facts to work here. >> exactly. the irs has apologized already which would imply that they know there's wrongdoing. with respect to the a.p. phone records on, several occasions, reporters in the briefing room reminded jay that under this administration, there had been more leak investigations than any administration prior combined. those are not about the current investigation. they have nothing to do with the current investigation. they're about a message being sent by the administration with regard to the ability of the press to do investigative

journalism. what jay did was hide behind the curtain of investigation to not answer those questions. he said the president respects the press. that he supports the measures to ensure the freedom of the press but they wouldn't get too into details because of the investigation. that was a dodge. >> let me bring you this. it was congress that asked the obama administration to investigate these security leaks. some republicans felt that the administration was deliberate in information that would make the president look good, leading into the election. this is how these investigations or this investigation started here. eric holder said he is not a part of what's going on with the a.p. however, he believes the leaked information that was the focus of this seizure was one that put american lives or potentially put american lives in danger. that this threat, i think he said, was one or two of the most severe issues that he had seen in prosecution. >> certainly it is clear the administration feels that way

whether or not congress requested it and whether that triggers some kind of investigation by the fbi. you have as sam said, seen this leth level of investigation in wanting to pursue investigation themselves believe what they're doing. despite the claims from the podium in the briefing, they do have the power to make decisions and send signals to their cabinets about what they want to do. we've heard the white use deflect a lot of attention away from themselves but he is still the president and is able to send a signal about what he wants to do. and investigating and pursuing these investigations has clearly been a priority for them. >> jonathan, the accusation has been that it was an overreach. why would you need personal phone records? even though most work contacts with your office phone and your mobile phone. 100 a.p. reporters and editors. eric holder not speaking to that but with his answer regarding the severity of the threat. he was trying to paint the dots.

we needed to get all of this information. because what was looming over the heads of the american public was so intense, so severe, we needed all of this information. whether that flies or not, we know that's what he was floating out. >> that's what he was trying to do. this remind me of those drills that kids in school in the 1950s during the cold war used to have to get under their decks. it was called duck and cover. i don't believe there is a cover-up in benghazi but on the a.p. story, they are ducking and trying to avoid taking direct responsibility. >> that's insane. it is not going away. >> they're trying to get some of there, hate to use the word, talking points in between. while not taking accountability. for instance, the attorney general just said that they had exhausted all other investigative avenues before this dragnet, putting 100 reporters under surveillance. that is very hard to believe.

there are a number of other thing they could have done before they exhausted all other things. like maybe contacting the associated press and asking them for cooperation? maybe publicly asking the associated press for cooperation? there are many other things they could have done to pursue this investigation short of what seems to be to be a gross violation of the constitutional rights of these reporters. >> but what happens is, we're already seeing, i want to you comment. the legitimate questions then tossed into the highly politicized environment that we live in. already you have reince priebus calling for the attorney general to step down before being reminded that he recused himself from the investigation. to the irs, you have members of the tea party and the far right saying, and glen beck leading the charge. this is what i've been telling you all along. this is what the administration is all about.

they target their enemies and take out whoever they can. >> that's just bull. there's so much going on, tamron. i think when you have -- >> i don't think you can say it is bull. half of this country believes opposite of what you might believe. and they watch there. and they see it as a point of reference. i grew up in texas. everywhere you go, people, red state solid. and those folks down there and a part of our country says that the irs, the obama administration, is overreaching. when you give them something that is factual like this irs situation, it does validate their concern. whether you think so or not. >> it plays into their hands. i agree with you as a practical matter, it does. but first of all, they're not half the country. they lost the half election. they're significantly below half the country which is something given the election results, we should keep in mind them like to say they're america and the rest of russ visiting. >> but they are a part of the country. >> they are a part of the country. we need to tease out, separate the glenn becks of the world who

have these paranoid fantasies from what the president agrees should be a legitimate and very aggressive investigation to find out what happened. if they targeted only tea party and not super pacs on the left, doing the same thing, that's wrong. >> which we haven't seen. >> and there should be consequences. but to jump to a bunch of conclusions about the irs. especially since when you're using this designation, this tax-exempt designation. what they're jumping to as a conclusion which i think is wrong, is that somehow these organizations, tea party and otherwise, claiming that they were not engaged in political activity, when they have party in their title. they are by definition. in order to get a tax exemption, they were claiming they were nonpolitical. the irs should investigate that. in every case on both sides of the spectrum. if you try, whether you're bill burton for the liberals or karl rove for the conservatives.

if you are falsely claiming that politics is not the intention of your organization, you should be investigated. >> absolutely. but that's not what we're dealing with right now. we're not seeing facts of it. what we're also losing sight of, this is something, i'll get your comment and sam as well. that these are so-called small fish when the big fish on both sides that are raising enormous amounts of cash and affecting the elections are not being scrutinized and we are to your point, talking about some of these smaller entities. not saying they should be skirted under the table. the big fish that we all focused on and we know they're did he go to out millions of dollars. at least we're not seeing this scrutiny on those groups. and we're not seeing so far documentation that those on the left are scrutinizing the same way in this latest batch of things we're about. >> first off, you and jonathan want to continue talking, i was enjoying that. secondly, i think you're right. i think the big problem that a

lot of good government groups campaigned on, finance advocates are worried that these revelations will distract from what is a really big issue on hand. the growth of these nonpartisan, nonpolitical organizations that are mini political parties. and it is a real mess. what this means is that we'll have more difficulty. in the wake of many of these supreme court cases, we've seen a proliferation of these that are very much campaigns. the irs was not just applying filthers to tea party groups and conservative organizations. it was also going after relatively small fish. and i think you're right about that. they needed to be equal opportunity offenders but they needed the right priorities. and it seems like they erred on both fronts? they said they filed many

complaints to look into these so-called big fish and they didn't see resources used to look at some of those used to dole out millions. here we are talking about the irs. benghazi and now the a.p. immigration. some other issues the administration wants to see taken care of the president talking about the clock ticking. it seems as if everything has come to a standstill. legitimately in some cases. we're not about these other legislation, legislative efforts from this administration. particularly immigration. is this a big distraction? >> well, just because we're not talking about it doesn't mean there isn't progress happening. i think there is an immigration mark-up. it is getting more attention had this not happened. the rest government does still go on. >> it doesn't seem like it. >> it sure doesn't. i think it will be interesting to see as this week goes forward. the inspector general's report on the irs matter will come out.

we'll obviously hear more about the a.p. leak probe. as the week goes on, i think it will be interesting to see if there is any real progress. it was always going to be a real slog for the president. he only had a limited amount of time left. even in the absence of what we're seeing now, we would have been talking about his difficult challenge getting anything achieved in the second term. >> thank you for your time. i've gone over time. jonathan alter, you've gotten me in trouble. i was told to take a deep breath on jonathan. thank you very much. and moving on to the other story we've been following, jurors in the kermit gosnell trial, whether he deserves the death penalty after being found guilty of can i go three babies. why some say the trial was more important than the verdict. plus a lot of reaction to angelina jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy after learning she had an 87% risk of

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behind bars out of 34 states that have the death penalty, pennsylvania ranks 32nd in performing executions. since pennsylvania reinstated the death penalty in 1976, there have been as many sue sides on death row as executions. three each. joining me now, radio talk show host, michael smerconish now heard exclusively. we saw the stats regarding the death penalty. there are many who believe the verdict is perhaps the most important part as opposed to what will be carried out regarding sentencing. what do you say? >> well, i think you've put your finger on it. this is largely a fiction that is about to unfold. i was pro bono legal counsel in one of the death penalty cases. arguably the highest profile case in the world. i can tell that you the only three individuals who have been put to death on pennsylvania's death row since it came back in

the late 70s into the law, each of them asked for it. they waived a white flag and said i surrender my right to appeal and i would like to be subject to the death penalty. so we really don't have it in this state. nevertheless, as you point out, the jury comes back next tuesday and starts this process. >> when you look back at the case, was there any other outcome? >> probably not. >> the overwhelming evidence seems to be here. >> it really did. i think jack mcmahan who is a really smart, street smart lawyer saw what he had in his hands, took a risk in not presenting not only dr. gosnell who doesn't have a legal obligation to testify, he didn't even put on any evidence. instead he concentrated his energies on pointing whether the baby had been born alive. put it on the line in his closing statement and said the prosecution failed to meet its burden in this case. it was probably the best he could do armed with the facts

that he had. >> and lastly, you have the president of americans united for life and their reaction was by pulling back the secrecy that cloaks this agency that plays on women's feelings. group like this, will they be able to point to the gosnell case to forward their agenda? >> well, i hope not. i think that would be the complete wrong analysis or outcome from this case. dr. gosnell was performing unlawful abortions. not lawful abortions. that's why he faces now three convictions for first-degree murder. i would argue that if there are further restrictions put on abortion across the country, you'll get more gosnells, not fewer of them. and i say that because he flouted the law. he didn't care about the law. he was willing to do this regardless of the standard. >> thank you for your time. i appreciate it.

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jolie said she hope other women can benefit from her experience, saying in part, i chose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. joining me now, founder of the bright pink.org who also underwent a double mastectomy herself at the young age of 23. thank you for joining us. i would encourage everyone to go on to your website to hear your story and so many others. take me through your decision. you were only 23. what brought you to that point? >> well, thank you so much for having me. i have a very strong family history of both breast and ovarian cancer. my grandma and great grand pla died a week apart both from breast cancer before i was even born. my mom is an 18-year breast cancer survivor. so knowing this family history, it was really important that for my family, that we took the knowledge and used it to have

the opportunity to take action. something that generations of women before me never had the opportunity to do. so i made the decision at 23 years old. at the time he was the youngest person in the country to have the same surgery that angelina jolie just had. the risk reducing double mastectomy. and it is a decision i have never looked back on. it has been eight years since. >> obviously part of this conversation has to turn to the cost of it and how accessible this test is or is not that angelina jolie had. and many other women as you indicated, including yourself. as i understand it, it is about $3,000, the initial testing? >> so that's the actual cost. but i think what is so important for women to take away is that insurance is getting better about covering it. if a woman is covered and has those indicators, 90% of the time, the test is covered up to 90%. also, what is so important is for not every woman to run out and go get genetic testing.

it really starts with getting to know your family's cancer history and taking that to a doctor that you trust so you can develop that strategy that makes sense for you. >> part of angelina jolie's op ed. she said i do not feel less of a woman. i feel empowered that i made a strong choice, that in no way diminishes my femininity. from the medical aspect, obviously, the surgery itself. to the emotional support that is needed for women like yourself, do we have each other's back if you will? do you see that support system amongst women going through this? >> well, that's actually why i started bright pink back in 2006 when i was undergoing the testing process and then surgery. i felt so alone. so i started bright pink to create a community where women have the opportunity to lean on one another. to learn from each other. and to just have a chance to be there to support one another. we have a program called pink power. we pair up women going through similar situations to what

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benghazi, the irs and now the a.p. our first read team notes three makes it harder going on to say the rule of three means the president's credibility is truly on the line right now. with the public.

no amount of denial or outrage will be as persuasive to the public and the president's political foes know it. joining me, senior political editor mark murray. go into detail on what you mean by that. >> that has to do with the fact that there is now a full-on media feeding frenzy going on. when you are just dealing with the benghazi e-mails, that was one thing. you end up dealing with the irs investigation. now comes this story about the justice department, wanting phone records for a.p. reporters and editors. and it turns into a feeding frenzy. it is very important that we don't have all the facts. my colleague chuck todd just reported that one of the big talking points regarding the benghazi e-mails from the white house, from very senior white house official ben rhodes, the national security adviser ended up saying according to some earlier reporting from last week that he wanted to help address the state department's concerns in drafting these benghazi

talking points. chuck todd got the e-mail. and it never addressed that at all. so bottom line, we don't have all the facts on any of these three stories. there is a media and feeding frenzy going. on time will tell if this turns into something big in the future. the apology for something was issued as of friday. and agencies don't often apologize if there's been something there. with that said, you had robert gibbs on with andrea mitchell during her show. and he talked about the response being weak from the administration. at least on that topic of so while you're absolutely right, our jobs is to wait for facts, there has been time to respond. you had eric holder coming out. saying he had recused himself after being interviewed by the fbi. there is a fact that helps move this story forward and more understanding of what was going on with the associated press and

moves it ahead. we can move ahead without speculation. >> particularly as it revolves to how high does this go, that really is the bottom line. we're not going to get tonight when it come to the irs. and you were mentioning the criticism that the press secretary robert gibbs had. old bosses. that is always news when you end up having someone who says my old employers could have done something better. he was more referring to the tone rather than the depth of this controversy. so still, a lot of reporting. a lot of context and perspective. right now you can rest assured that the last 7296 hours have been very, very difficult for the obama white house. >> my last question, in all of those things again are true and we're waiting for facts. why does the first read team point out that these three, meaning the president's credit about it is truly on the line right now with the public. >> well, this has to go with the feeding frenzy.

people in the administration would say you might say the media defines us having a credibility issue. with the white house finding itself fighting three different fronts on three very different tough stories. that's not a place that you ever want to be and it does bring in some question, the credibility. the most important thing is the context and what happens going forward. >> senate majority leader harry reid has pushed back on the irs story. he railed against irs abuses. he pointed out, it was not long ago that the naacp green peace, california, and progressive church were investigated. these are harry reid's words, we didn't hear a single republican grandstand the issue then. he went on to say karl rove and the shadowy groups masquerading as social welfare organizations. so harry reid firing back, at least right now and just some new information that i got in this.

moving. on o.j. simpson was back in vegas in day to where he is trying to win a trial. he is convicted of leading a gunpoint robbery of two dealers in a vegas hotel. he is serving up to 33 years behind bars. he is now arguing, he had poor legal representation. witnesses were testifying about the circumstances of the robbery and about simpson's attorney. leanne gregg joins us. simpson is programs expected to take the stand tomorrow but we're hearing, it sounds like a rehashing of the case itself of. >> absolutely. that is what has been happening. his former attorney gabriel grasso, another member of the legal team back then in 2008 when he was convicted, testified today that a lot of mistakes were made and mostly pointing to yale galanter, the lead attorney. he said it was a mistake not putting simpson on the stand. and like you mentioned, he will be doing that tomorrow

presumably and telling his side of the story. a lot of anticipation about what he will say and what he has seen since it's been so long. and he clearly looks a lot more weary since five years ago when he was last in a courtroom. his hair is gray. his arms are shackled. he shuffles when he walks and you can tell that he is wincing or seems in pain when he stands because of the shackles on his legs. he did win a small victory when the judge allowed them to remove the shackles from one hand so he could take sips of water. later this afternoon, the man who prosecuted simpson last time in 2008 is expected to testify. there is a witness roster of close to 20 people during the week. it is o.j. simpson's chance to walk out of the courtroom a free man and get another trial. >> thank you very much. we'll see what happens tomorrow. and coming up, some 50 murder

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the brooklyn, new york district attorney is reviewing 50 murder convictions that were possibly tainted by a detective who is accused of playing business his own rules for years. a man was convicted of murder and spent 23 years in jail, thanks in large part to flawed police work by detective luis scarcella. they found he removed violent criminals to let them smoke crack and visit prostitutes in exchange for incriminating ranta. the new york time reports that he handled dozens of murder cases in the '80s and '90s using unreliable witnesses and questionable confessions. he is now retired and denying any wrongdoing. joining me now, thank you so much for joining us. >> how could this happen? >> there's a lot of blame being

put on detective scarcella. he had to have a supervisor, there had to be a district attorney on the case. that district attorney had a supervisor. the judges were overseeing these cases who were looking at the evidence and everybody was willing to look the other way. it was a terrible period in new york's history of crack and drugs and crime and everybody just wanted -- >> basically the app allegation is that his tactic was that he would use anyone and everyone to get a witness who had been suspected of a crime? >> one of the things we found that was most troubling, he would rely on the same witness over and over again. there was a woman named teresa gomez who was on crack who had a remarkable ability of witnessing homicides that he was assigned to. we documented at least four cases. he says that there are at least six and maybe more. that she just happens to always be around when bad things happen. >> back to this, no one noticed he was using the same woman as a witness in all of these murders. >> of course they noticed.

they noticed and then, wow, aren't we lucky that she happened to be there. >> so is this investigation then stopping with scarcella? >> that's an excellent question. a lot of people are asking that. i will say among the wrongful conviction legal community in new york, they're saying there are a preponderance of cases for scarcella but he was the only person operating this way. >> the integrity unit will reopen every murder case that result in a murder case. that could mean family members of those people who were murdered, brought back in. being told that the case we told you had been solved. the person behind bars, that may not be the person. the tentacles of this, the pain if these allegations are true is incredible. >> one of the people we had speaker viewed of a person who really admired detective scarcella. don't put the killer's name in

the paper. don't put my brother's name in the paper because it will break my brother's heart. i thought wait until they see the heart break if they their case gets reopened and this man gets freed because he didn't do it. >> we'll continue to follow this and follow your reporting on this case that we're as many as 50 murder cases reviewed right now. thank you very much. >> thank you. up next, prince harry spent much of the day with chris christie touring areas fighting back after hurricane sandy. now he is headed to harlem, expected to arrive any minute. we'll have a live report of harry and harlem. [ female announcer ] doctors trust calcium plus vitamin d to support strong bones. and the brand most recommended by... my doctor. my gynecologist. my pharmacist. citracal. citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. doctors trust citracal.

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britain's prince harry continues his u.s. tour. his next stop, harlem where he is expected to use his cricket

skills by stepping on to the field with the kids. he has spent his time visiting the areas hit by hurricane sandy. the governor welcomed him by giving him one of his famous fleece jackets. nbc special correspondent ben fogle is in harlem. you see the kids in the background. he will have a great time in harlem. >> reporter: he is building up his wardrobe with the fleeces, the caps he is collecting. the kids are warming up, getting ready for a baseball game with the prince who is due to arrive in new york city any minute now. he will be pitched by mark teixeira a little later, showing us what his baseball skills are like. as you say it has been a full day of engagements. he began on the jersey shore where he was accompany by new jersey governor chris christie to see those scenes of devastation left over from super storm sandy. he then moved on to new york city itself where he teamed up

with british prime minister david cameron on a double-decker bus to help push british business over here in the united states. and shortly he'll be arriving here in harlem at harlem rbi to do what he does best, have a go at sports. we've seen him taking part in sitting volleyball in colorado springs. american football over there. he took part in a human pyramid. he played on the jersey shore earlier. later on he'll be playing baseball and tomorrow he'll be taking part in his favorite sport of all when he heads to connecticut to take part in a polo match. >> and you mentioned, he loves sports. he is pretty good with kids as well. you often see him dancing and interacting in the jersey shore. so the kids behind you i imagine will have a blast of a time meeting prince harry. >> absolutely. we heard the first lady herself saying what a good nanny he would make looking after young kids. all these young kids have been here practicing for the last hour or so. and you can sense the

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